Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] some kind " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideas about not ‘ burdening others ’ with personal problems , that discussing them denotes some kind of ‘ personal weakness ’ , are common within the older generations , especially when the prospective counsellee has a strong sense of personal dignity and pride . |
| 2 | ‘ Are you serving me food , or am I interrupting some kind of talent contest ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I need some kind of advantage . ’ |
| 4 | I have some kind of feelings towards that idea . ’ |
| 5 | Make me feel I have some kind of base to my life . |
| 6 | She made some kind of gesture . |
| 7 | Would you prefer to have another election so that one party could obtain an overall majority or would you prefer some kind of arrangement between the parties so there would not have to be an election for a number of years ? |
| 8 | Would n't you agree it 's just about time that somebody helped you to restore some kind of order into your life ? " |
| 9 | Erm If it 's if you want some kind of a guideline I think last year I ca n't remember but I think we I think last year we actually had to ask because the parish could n't support it totally . |
| 10 | She has some kind of black shawl over her shoulders . |
| 11 | They ask you for every kind of documentation you can imagine and then treat you like some kind of being that is half-human , half-dog , who does n't have any private life of her own . |
| 12 | You get some kind of a kick out of it , I suppose . |
| 13 | Funerals are very valuable politically , and then you usually get a kind of a shake down , you get some kind of group — in the Communist countries it 's the polit bureau . |
| 14 | Are you starting some kind of floating menagerie on my boat ? ’ |
| 15 | Do you have some kind of contact with the weather gods ? ’ she asked sourly . |
| 16 | ‘ Er — just the one night , I think , ’ she replied , having hoped not to stay even that long but suddenly realising that , since she needed some kind of base where she could go to collect her thoughts , that perhaps to have a room where she could relax and think in private was n't such a bad idea after all . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't see how we can avoid that , ’ said Robert , ‘ unless you use some kind of periscope . ’ |
| 18 | Last summer she had some kind of shock — nobody knows what . |
| 19 | She dared fantasise , for just a moment , that she had some kind of family again , perhaps with Leila as a surrogate mother , the three of them heading for the stars . |
| 20 | She had some kind of a mid-European accent . |
| 21 | However a disadvantage of this technique in comparison with patch clamp is that you ca n't always guarantee the orientation of your channels , so that if you see some kind of rectifying characteristic in the bilayer er you have no way a prior of knowing whether that rectifying er characteristic is associated with an influx or an afflux from the cytoplasm . |
| 22 | Rain coming down , usually come down in a stream so you have some kind of erm mill |
| 23 | So the idea is you have some kind of token so that er , classic example in sort of junior schools , primary schools , that y'know if a child actually does what you want it to do , it gets a kind of star in a star chart and added up so many stars it gets some kind of present and basically the same kind of thing can be applied in clinical and in occupational settings as well . |
| 24 | For occasional , easy access to a network you need some kind of LAN adaptor that just plugs into your computer . |
| 25 | Can you cause some kind of distraction , Doctor ? ’ |
| 26 | We got attention straight away , we got some kind of profile very easily . |
| 27 | If we work extra hard for our employers we expect some kind of reward in return . |
| 28 | It is very easy to put the apostles on a sort of Olympic rostrum , and think that God will hang a gold medal round Paul 's neck , while we get some kind of lesser award . |
| 29 | Many of them needed some kind of kick up the financial backside . |
| 30 | During the middle ages the most important records were at least in some degree legal instruments : whether they transferred land , appointed men to office , warranted expenditure , acquitted revenue officers of their charge , or summoned litigants to court , they conveyed some kind of legally valid authority . |